Techrights in the Coming Decade: The Community Angle
THIS is the final part, at least for the time being. We strive to explain which topics or themes the site (and capsule) will focus on, as trends in technology change and new threats emerge.
One very obvious problem has been the marginalisation of communities, sometimes under the guise of protecting minorities or excluding "unruly" people who are usually not unruly, just opinionated or vocal.
Community-led development of software is under attack by the likes of systemd (Microsoft et al) and charlatans from the Linux Foundation (which doesn't even use Linux!).
One everlasting threat to climate activism is infiltration by Big Oil and sometimes greenwashing which discredits actual activists. We have the same going on right now in our communities, except the interference and its nature (e.g. "openwashing") may vary somewhat.
We're still trying to explain what happened to the OSI, what FSFE really is (a fake, more like identity theft), and how SFC is basically run by a bunch of greedy, unprincipled people. They represent IBM more than they represent the GPL, whose creators they keep slandering.
Somebody needs to call them out on their BS. Sure, that somebody will likely become the next target of their slandering campaigns, but we're up to the task. Bring it on, you BS artists. █
